
President Obama’s recent visit to Asia underscored the importance of the U.S.-China relationship and the challenge of managing it in the context of increasing interdependence, but also tension and mistrust.

Four months after the historic meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Barack Obama at the Sunnylands Estate, the direction of Obama’s East Asia policy remains unclear.

Chinese President Xi Jinping has been calling for a new type of great-power relationship with the United States to pave the way for China’s smooth ascendance into the changing global order.
China holds a critical role in overcoming the major global issues of 2013, ranging from climate change to nuclear security to the global economy.

Public opinion plays a strong, though different, role in the development of foreign policy in both China and the United States.

How China and the United States interact with each other and other states in the Asian-Pacific region will determine the future of this tenuous bilateral relationship.

Amid discussions of a U.S. decline, the role that China will play as a global leader becomes an ever more heated topic. However, debate remains about whether China is ready or willing to be a global leader.

Conditionality poses the most significant difference in how aid is given by Western nations and China.

The key facets of the China’s developmental model could be useful for the world’s emerging economies to emulate.

China’s rise has left its neighbours disconcerted about the role that China will play in the region and wondering whether the traditional East-Asian order and system with China at the fore will emerge once again.